GoKawiil - Tech News

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Doomscrolling at work wastes time, but the real cost is what happens after (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-23 | by Texas A M University | tags: doomscrolling, texas a&m university, social media

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I Dream of Quieter Computing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-23 | tags: google glass, cloud computing, webring

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This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: August 22, 2026 — foundries, supercomputers, China, and how to not overpay on a motherboard (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-22 | by Sayem Ahmed | tags: tom's hardware, motherboards, foundries

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Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-22 | tags: munder difflin, agent harness, team member

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IEEE Computer Society Names 2026 Career Catalyst Scholarship Recipients (computer.org)

2026-08-21 | tags: ieee computer society, career catalyst scholarship, los alamitos

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I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: photoshop, raspberry pi, apple mac

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Hardware Makers Implement Post-Quantum Cryptography as Security Threats Near (darkreading.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: post-quantum cryptography, hardware makers, encryption

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If one PC creates 20dB of noise and another makes 40dB, how louder is the second PC? (techspot.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: human hearing, logarithmic scale, noise levels

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The Brains Who Powered China’s Surprising AI Leap (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-21 | tags: china, anthropic, openai

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Project Cybersyn (2022) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-20 | tags: cybersyn, stafford beer, allende chile

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The supercomputer race no longer means what it used to, as rankings lose relevance in the AI era — as privately held compute clusters are built, running HPL becomes a distraction (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-20 | by Chris Stokel-Walker | tags: supercomputer, china, linshine

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FBI Warns That Hackers Are Targeting Siemens Equipment Amid Recent Water Plant Breaches (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-19 | tags: fbi, siemens, water plant

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LiteLLM as a Control Plane for Scalable Intelligent Document Processing (computer.org)

2026-08-19 | tags: litellm, intelligent document processing, large language models

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Babies Born Under Sugar Rationing Grew Into Adults With Lower Cancer Risk (slashdot.org)

2026-08-19 | tags: sugar rationing, cancer risk, joe martin

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IEEE Computer Society Certifications: Building Engineering Judgement in the AI Era (computer.org)

2026-08-18 | tags: ieee computer society, certifications, engineering judgement

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IEEE Computer Society Certifications: Building Engineering Judgment in the AI Era (computer.org)

2026-08-18 | tags: ieee computer society, certifications, engineering judgment

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Will you have spent more of your life with computers than your family? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: computer, screen time, family

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Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: roboflow, computer vision, anthropic

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You can turn an old Android into a Raspberry Pi alternative - but know this first (zdnet.com)

2026-08-17 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | tags: raspberry pi, android, linux debian

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OpenAI Ditches Recall-Style Screenshot Surveillance For Friendly Keylogging (slashdot.org)

2026-08-17 | tags: openai, chatgpt, codex

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Bridging Math, Standards, and AI in Education: An Interview with Dr. Robby Robson, 2026 Hans Karlsson Standards Award Recipient (computer.org)

2026-08-17 | tags: ieee computer society, eduworks corporation, hans karlsson standards award

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Who Owns Commodore? The Retro PC Brand Still Exists, but a Lot Has Changed (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | by Joel Loynds | tags: commodore, amiga, jack tramiel

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New ChatGPT Feature Collects Every Keystroke You Make (futurism.com)

2026-08-17 | by Frank Landymore | tags: chatgpt, openai, computer history

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Why I Told My Chatbot to Stop Kissing Up to Me (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-16 | tags: chatbot, ai responses, human-computer interaction

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ChatGPT’s Computer History tracks your clicks and keystrokes (theverge.com)

2026-08-16 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: chatgpt, openai, computer history

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Plastic mechanical computer from 1963: The Digi-Comp 1 [video] (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: digi-comp 1, mechanical computer, plastic computer

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Could a computer scientist build a brain? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Stan Kerstjens | tags: brain wiring, genome, neural development

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The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: ploppy, trackball, hardware

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2D Gaussian Splatting for Bézier Spline Line Art Vectorization (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | tags: bezier, gaussian splatting, vectorization

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RISC-V: They should have known better (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: risc-v, microcontrollers, supercomputers